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In the dim procedural landscape of family court, emotion yields to the blunt logic of dissolution. On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, Matthew A. Hogan filed for divorce from Halie M. Long in Jackson County, Missouri. What began as a marriage in Grain Valley on September 9, 2023, has now come to a halt, with separation declared as of February 8, 2025.
The filing reads less like accusation than like ledger—an account of what exists, what must be divided, and what no longer functions. Represented by Kevin Hoop of the Law Office of Kevin Hoop in Kansas City, Hogan seeks not retribution, but order. He affirms that the marriage is irretrievably broken, that no revival is forthcoming.
Three children—M.A.H., M.F.H., and M.M.H.—were born to the parties prior to the marriage. Hogan requests joint legal and joint physical custody, a shared framework intended to reflect the best interests of the children. He maintains that neither party is in need of spousal maintenance and that both are capable of supporting themselves through employment and property division.
There is no indication of outside litigation, no claims of pregnancy, and no invocation of military protections. What emerges is a quiet effort to dissolve the legal structure of a household, while preserving the practical and parental ties that persist beyond it.
The court is now asked to do what courts often must—transform private fracture into public resolution, and reshape a family without destroying it.
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